Parliament presents the nominees for the 2024 Sakharov Prize

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Every year, the European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to honour exceptional individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. • The political groups will present the nominees for the Sakharov Prize 2024 in a joint meeting of the foreign affairs and development committees and the human rights subcommittee in Brussels on 26 September. • On 17 October, the foreign affairs and development committees will announce the three finalists and Parliament President Roberta Metsola and the political group leaders will take a decision on the final laureate on 24 October. • In 2023, the prize was awarded to Jina Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran. • The nominees for the 2024 Sakharov Prize are: • María Corina Machado as the leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela and President-elect Edmundo González Urrutia, representing all Venezuelans inside and outside the country fighting for the re-institution of freedom and democracy, Venezuela, nominated by the EPP group • “Women wage peace and Women of the sun and their co-founders Yael Admi and Reem Hajajreh, Israel/Palestine, nominated by the S D group • Elon Musk, United States, nominated by the Patriots for Europe group and by Europe of Sovereign nations group • Edmundo González Urrutia, Venezuela, nominated by the ECR group • Women Wage Peace Women of the Sun, Israel/Palestine, nominated by the Renew Europe group • Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu, Azerbaijan, nominated by The Greens/EFA group • Journalists in Palestine (Hamza Wael Al-Dahdouh, Plestia Alaqad, Shireen Abu Akleh and Ain Media in honour of Yasser Murtaja Roshdi Sarraj), Palestine, nominated by The Left group. • • Read more about the Sakharov Prize: • https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics...

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